Frost history / Dauphin Is #2, AL
Dauphin Is #2, AL: frost dates by year
Last spring and first fall frost at NOAA station USC00012172, 1975 to 2025, measured from daily minimum temperatures.
Elevation 8 ft, 30.251, -88.078. Download the data (JSON), NOAA daily records
Summary at 32°F
| Last spring frost | First fall frost | |
|---|---|---|
| Median | Feb 4 | Dec 15 |
| Earliest | Jan 4 (2001) | Nov 30 (1979) |
| Latest | Mar 10 (1996) | Dec 27 (2010) |
| Trend | 3.4 days earlier per decade | 1.2 days later per decade |
| Years with data | 40, 7 with no freeze | 40, 25 with no freeze |
At 28°F (hard freeze) the median last spring date is Jan 20 and the median first fall date is Dec 20.
The trend is a straight-line fit through the years with a freeze. A positive spring trend means the last frost now comes later. Short or patchy records give noisy trends.
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Last spring frost (32°F)
First fall frost (32°F)
Dots are single years. The gray line is the median, the green line the fitted trend.
Year by year
| Year | Last spring 32°F | First fall 32°F | Last spring 28°F | First fall 28°F |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Jan 23 | none | Jan 23 | none |
| 2024 | Feb 19 | no data | Jan 17 | no data |
| 2023 | none | none | none | none |
| 2022 | no data | Dec 23 | no data | Dec 23 |
| 2021 | no data | none | no data | none |
| 2019 | Jan 27 | no data | none | no data |
| 2018 | no data | none | no data | none |
| 2016 | no data | none | no data | none |
| 2015 | Jan 9 | no data | Jan 9 | no data |
| 2014 | Jan 31 | none | Jan 8 | none |
| 2013 | none | none | none | none |
| 2012 | Feb 13 | none | none | none |
| 2011 | Feb 12 | none | none | none |
| 2010 | Feb 17 | Dec 27 | Jan 10 | none |
| 2009 | Jan 17 | Dec 6 | none | Dec 6 |
| 2008 | Jan 4 | none | none | none |
| 2007 | Feb 18 | none | none | none |
| 2006 | none | Dec 8 | none | none |
| 2005 | Jan 24 | none | none | none |
| 2004 | Feb 9 | no data | none | no data |
| 2003 | Feb 4 | none | Jan 25 | none |
| 2002 | Mar 5 | none | none | none |
| 2001 | Jan 4 | none | Jan 3 | none |
| 2000 | Jan 27 | Dec 20 | none | Dec 20 |
| 1999 | Jan 11 | none | Jan 6 | none |
| 1998 | none | none | none | none |
| 1997 | Jan 18 | none | Jan 18 | none |
| 1996 | Mar 10 | no data | Feb 6 | no data |
| 1995 | none | Dec 10 | none | none |
| 1994 | Jan 20 | none | Jan 20 | none |
| 1993 | none | none | none | none |
| 1992 | no data | none | no data | none |
| 1991 | Feb 16 | none | none | none |
| 1990 | none | Dec 24 | none | none |
| 1989 | Feb 26 | Dec 13 | Feb 26 | Dec 22 |
| 1988 | Feb 13 | no data | Feb 13 | no data |
| 1987 | Jan 27 | none | none | none |
| 1986 | Mar 1 | none | Jan 28 | none |
| 1985 | Feb 4 | Dec 15 | Feb 3 | Dec 26 |
| 1984 | no data | Dec 7 | no data | none |
| 1982 | Mar 8 | no data | Jan 18 | no data |
| 1981 | Feb 13 | Dec 19 | Feb 13 | Dec 19 |
| 1980 | Mar 4 | no data | Mar 3 | no data |
| 1979 | Feb 11 | Nov 30 | Jan 10 | Nov 30 |
| 1978 | no data | none | no data | none |
| 1977 | Jan 30 | Dec 10 | Jan 30 | none |
| 1976 | Jan 17 | Dec 21 | Jan 9 | none |
| 1975 | no data | Dec 19 | no data | Dec 19 |
"none" means the station recorded no freeze at that threshold in that half of the year. "no data" means more than 10% of the season's daily readings were missing. Years with no usable data are left out. See the methodology for the rules, and the ZIP lookup for 1991 to 2020 frost probabilities.